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80 year old man arrested because of Tshirt

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:10:30 GMT

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Police said that Don Zirkel, of Bethpage, was disturbing shoppers at the Lake Grove mall with his T-shirt

upsetting? a Tshirt? are we supposed to pretend this isn't happening?

An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall yesterday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to remove a T-shirt protesting the Iraq War.

Zirkel, a deacon at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Wyandanch, said his shirt had the death tolls of American military personnel and Iraqis - 4,000 and 1 million - and the words "Dead" and "Enough." The shirt also has three blotches resembling blood splatters.

Zirkel said he was sitting in the food court drinking coffee with his wife Marie, 77, and several others when police and mall security officers approached and demanded they remove their anti-war T-shirts

"They forcibly picked me up and put me in the wheelchair," said Zirkel

charged with criminal trespassing and resisting arrest

Activists with dueling opinions had gathered to support and oppose America's five-year campaign.

Tags: 80 yr. old, arrest, tshirt, anti-war

It's Complicated: The American Teenager

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:43:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: from photojournalist Robin Bowman - spent 4 years photographing and interviewing 400 American teenagers

Clip Source: www.npr.org

Photos from 'It's Complicated: The American Teenager,' by Robin Bowman

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Tags: teenage life

Nature's Best

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:41:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www.mnh.si.edu

5 Urban Design Proposals for 3D City Farms

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:15:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sustainable, Ecological and Agricultural Skyscrapers - One man’s vision has sparked a series of designs leading closer and closer to what will be the first real-life vertical urban farm in Las Vegas, Nevada of all places. Here are five of these remarkable architectural designs for sustainable (and stylish) urban farm towers that may revolutionize agriculture as we know it. In the long run such structures may not only provide food for hundreds of thousands of people per building but they will also relieve much of the burden on other flat landscapes where fewer and fewer usable growing spaces exist.

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Imagine the world in 2050 with almost 80% of the planet’s population living in urban centers and our fruit, vegetables and even animals are grown in … skyscrapers?

One of the first designs of its kind, the compelling vertical farm project above was undertaken by Chris Jacobs in cooperation with the grandfather of skyscraper farm concepts

Architect Pierre Sartoux of Atelier SOA has gone a step further and put some serious design talent behind his proposal for a vertical farming skyscraper.

Given that most urban cores are already densely built, one designer has proposed an auxiliary series of structures to be attached to existing structures in downtown areas.

The Pacific Northwest regional architecture firm Mithun developed a compelling vertical farm building design to incorporate various green building strategies in a mixed-use residential and commercial complex

Architect Gordon Graff may succeed in the more green and progressive city of Toronto

Las Vegas

has a lot of potential

Tags: futurism, architecture, agriculture, farming

look at the bunny

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:53:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwe

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TOWER OF BABEL: Saudi Prince plans mile-high skyscraper!

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:52:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

On a clear day, the view from the top will take in the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian Ocean - providing you've a head for heights.

Plans for a mile-high tower in the Saudi Arabian desert have been unveiled by the billionaire owner of London's Savoy Hotel.

At 5,250ft, the £5billion project, masterminded by two British engineering consultancies, will be twice as high as its nearest rivals, skyscrapers under construction in Dubai and Kuwait, and almost seven times as high as the Canary Wharf tower in London's Docklands.

It is being planned for a new city near the Red Sea port of Jeddah. Behind the scheme is 51-year-old Prince al-Walid bin Talal, who bought the Savoy for £1.25billion in 2005.

The plan gives the Middle East a clear lead over Asian countries and the U.S., who have vied in the past to construct the world's tallest buildings.

None of the other skyscrapers under construction, including New York's Freedom Tower on the World Trade Centre site, will exceed 2,296ft.

Reading Fiction Improves Social Abilities

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:49:19 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sixwise.com

Those Who Read Fiction Better at Reading People

"Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't."

A study published in the Journal of Research in Personality and led by Raymond Mar

found that people who read narrative fiction often have improved social abilities, while for those who read non-fiction, the opposite holds true

"Stories often force us to empathize with characters who are quite different from us, and this ability could help us better understand the many kinds of people we come across in the real world."

People who frequently read narrative fiction scored higher on tests of both empathy

and social acumen

Frequent reading of non-fiction was associated with poorer empathy and social acumen.

Why is Fiction Reading Good for Social Awareness

First

it exposes people to examples of the way people behave socially

Second

readers practice inferring people's intentions and closely watching their relationships

Tags: reading, fiction, socialize